Tennis with Charles Bricker

 

8/30...Harold Solomon

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8/23...Bill Mountford; US Open Preview

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8/16...Bill Mountford

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8/9..Weekly update

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8/2..Weekly update

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7/26..Women's Tour update

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7/19..J. Wayne Richmond

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7/12..Premier Program

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4/22..Melanie Oudin

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4/12..Justin Gimlestob; Monte Carlo preview

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Charlie Bricker, who almost never stands on formalilty, nevertheless signs his work "Charles Bricker." An alumni of the University of California at Berkeley, he's had 41 distinguished years in the news business, covered 25 NFL seasons and Super Bowls and for the last 16 years covered men's and women's professional tennis. He's perfectly positioned to cover tennis in the U.S. as a resident of Tampa, within an hour's drive of three major tennis training academies, and wields a pretty mean Prince racquet as well.

 

If you would like to read some of the articles written by Charles Bricker of Tennisnews.com, just click one of the links below.

 

1/30/2010 - SERENA MAKES IT A DOZEN

"We've got a momentum change," TV analyst Mary Joe Fernandez told a Tennis Channel audience as Justine Henin begana run of 15 straight points to win the second set and vault strongly into the third of today's Aussie Open final.......Read More

 

1/28/2010 - IS VENUS INTO A SLOW FADE?

What now for 29-year-old Venus Williams after another disappointing Grand Slam performance?Is she, like so many other great players before her, slipping into a slow fade from greatness as she approaches 30?

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1/26/2010 - HOW MURRAY ROSE TO THE TOP

I wrote two days ago that Andy Murray was playing the best tennis at the Australian Open through the first four roundsand, even with Rafael Nadal's hugely disappointing knee injury/retirement on Monday, Murray has only reinforced my view.......Read More

 

1/25/2010 - HENIN STRUGGLES THROUGH TO SEMIS

The quick-twitch Justine Henin feet were as twitchy as advertised, but the brain is tired and before she hits the court on Wednesday for her semifinal, she needs at least a couple of deep massages -- on the brain as well as the rest of the body.......Read More

 

1/25/2010 - MARTINA: PLEASE! ZIP IT UP

Bill? Bill McAtee? Are you still up there in the booth? We're approaching the end of the opening set between Justine Henin and Nadia Petrova, and I haven'theard from McAtee in some time. Of course, how could anyone hear from him? Martina Navratilova was in the midst of one of her frequent and annoying non-stop monologues.......Read More

 

1/23/2010 - MURRAY: IN A HURRY

I'm not saying (yet) that Andy Murray is going to be hoisting his first Grand Slam cup when this thing is over next Sunday, but after this virtuoso displayagainst John Isner this afternoon in Melbourne there is no doubt in my mind that right now, at this halfway point, he's playing the best tennis at the Aussie Open.......Read More

 

1/20/2010 - IS IT OVA FOR VAIDISOVA?

As Nicole Vaidisova offered up a limp handshake to her No. 230-ranked conqueror, all I could do was sit there, courtside, wincing and wondering why I had just wasted an hour of my life watching this 6-4, 6-2 beating.......Read More

 

1/19/2010 - CHALLENGING START FOR MARIA

Scatter-shooting the first two days:

* Keep guessing, Maria: Kirilenko was 0-for-7 on challenges in her opening-round win over Maria Sharapova and the women, overall, are overturning challenge calls at only 22 percent. Compare to 36 percent for the men, but it's early yet.......Read More

 

1/18/2010 - SHARAPOVA BOMBS OUT

There's nothing like an opening day stunner at a Grand Slam. Like then-unknown Ivo Karlovic whacking Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon or career nobody Gilles Muller dousing Andy Roddick at the U.S. Open.......Read More

 

1/15/2010 - STEVENSON QUITS AGAIN

It's with a certain amount of sadness that I report that Alexandra Stevenson, who had more than 15 minutes of fame at the 1999 Wimbledon, has retired from a match with injury for the 41st time in her heavily mismanaged career.......Read More

 

1/14/2010 - AT LAST: CHANGES IN DAVIS CUP

I've just read the unsigned statement from the ITF regarding the brilliant redesign concept for Davis Cup and there is no doubt in my mind that it had to be written by Grand Slams chief executive Bill "My Feet Are Firmly Entrenched in Concrete" Babcock.......Read More

 

12/29/2009 - LEVINE WILL FOREGO AUSSIE OPEN

When Jesse Levine had finished up a couple of training hours on court with Sebastien Grosjean this morning, there were still no changes on the other side of the world at the Australian Open.......Read More